We call ourselves the Makan Kings because we are a bunch of people who just LOVE to eat! Join us in our culinary adventures across Malaysia, Asia and the World!!!

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

On Location!!! - Kuching - Tea Time @ Open Air Market

Kuchingans like to eat! There are so many things to eat around the city at any time of the day. Went over to the open air market in town to have some beef noodles(apparently its quite famous there). Unfortunately the stall was closed. Will try it out another day. Meantime, we had siew mai(they call it sio bee here) and pao for tea.

Ordered the special for drinks. It seems you can find all sort of shaved iced drinks in Kuching. The special here includes all sorts of coloured jelly and some fresh fruits(watermelon and honeydew melon). Maybe its the weather(its incredibly hot in town) but this kind of drinks really hit the spot!

Next we ordered the sio bee and char siew pao(top picture). The sio bee(siew mai, bottom picture) here is rather plain. It is not those fancy stuff you get in restaurants. It is quite tasty. The pao is also quite good. Prefer the big pao that we had the other day.

In kuching, siew mai really called siu bee ar?? is a direct translation from cantonese to hokkien. In penang, we still called it siew mai even we speak hokkien, if u order siu bee, i dont think ppl will understand. But the next time I go yam char, I will try to order siu bee, see that fella understand boh.... haha.. BTW i think that bowl of ice is nice for a hot weather in Malaysia. I love siew mai, maxis also do ....... Har Kao, Siew Mai, Cha Siu Pao, Cheong Fan, Malai Ko, Fan kor, Yu Chi Kao......

I was looking for blogs about tai chi and came across yours. I have whats referred to as a hard style Karate School and this is something we've been contemplating adding to it. Great blog you have and I've enjoyed reading the posts on it.